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Re:Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC by groundzeros2015 on Monday June 01, 2026 @04:47PM (#48362432)
And it was probably prudent to wait. The investors who wanted to take more risk could do that.

Retroactive reasoning with investments (if I just bought X) is insane.

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Re:Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC by cj on Monday June 01, 2026 @05:51PM (#48363144)
Indeed.

They IPO'd in 1980, yet their stock price was below the IPO price for the majority of 1980-1987.

It also fell to its IPO price for an extended period of time between 1996-1998.

You hypothetically could have waited 20 years after the IPO before investing without giving up theoretical gains.

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Re:Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC by lmm on Monday June 01, 2026 @09:37PM (#48364854)
> The investors who wanted to take more risk could do that.

What? How? By moving out of Massachusetts? I could understand banning such a speculative stock for e.g. pension funds or whatever, but blocking private individuals from buying with their own money seems insane.

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Re:Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC by groundzeros2015 on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @10:42AM (#48370932)
You’re right. I read this as banned the state from buying it (pensions etc). I agree that’s absurd if you were not allowed to buy through a broker.
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